Spam making a comeback??

[Terry Reedy]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     r> Seems like the level of spam is increasing in the last week, and
>     r> today has been bad. How are the spambytes coming along?
> 
> Spambayes is doing fine, but it only filters spam for the mailing list.  It
> has no effect on the Usenet side of things (comp.lang.python).

It does, however, affect the gmane.comp.lang.python newsgroup, which is 
very clean now. Thank you.  (And items posted through gmane are 
apparently sent to the mailing list first, and filtered, before being 
added to the mirror.)

tjr